Prep Roundup: Arroyo Grande teams sweep PAC 7 cross country meet

The Arroyo Grande High cross country team won both the boys and girls races at the PAC 7 midseason meet in Nipomo on Thursday.

The Eagles won the girls race with 25 points, an outcome Arroyo Grande coach Sean Ricketts said he expected.

“The girls have been so dominant,” Ricketts said. “Our goal was to have a 30-second gap within our team and it ended up being 28. We had a good pack today.”

Atascadero’s Mimi Peterson won the 5K race in 19 minutes, eight seconds, but Arroyo Grande’s runners took third through seventh place, led by Hannah Stevens’ time of 19:31. Atascadero finished second with 60 points, and Paso Robles was a close third with 62.

Hansson, whose total was a personal best at Rancho Maria Golf Course, finished one stroke behind Righetti’s Kelsey Nolan.

The Eagles shot a total of 237, finishing in second place in the team race, 30 strokes behind Righetti.San Luis Obispo’s Alessia Weckenmann finished in a fifth-place tie after carding a 42. Paso Robles’ Ashley Levanduski shot a 44 to lead the Bearcats to a total of 259 and third place.